Mario Van Peebles on Sway: Talks New Roots Series Being More Than a Project, "It's Our History"

[Deltron]

Legendary actor and director Mario Van Peebles has been brought on board by The History Channel to direct park of their new "Roots" mini-series. Joined by his son who plays Noah, Mario speaks on the opportunity being much more than a project, "It's our history," he boldly states.

Making it a point to tell a very historically accurate story the father-son duo open up about knowing the whole truth and sticking to it. During their stay Mandela also shares how he sent in an anonymous audition tape to get the part on his own.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

Ill pass on more slave shyt

 

[THEREALBRAND]

We should never stop acknowledging our history, and the plight our people have faced.

You'd never hear a Jewish person saying "Naw, I'm good without seeing anymore Holocaust stuff. We need to move on from that."

 

[Emoryal]

We should never stop acknowledging our history, and the plight our people have faced.

You'd never hear a Jewish person saying "Naw, I'm good without seeing anymore Holocaust stuff. We need to move on from that."

I'm sure you a Jewish person has said that before you just weren't around to hear it. If he doesn't want to watch it he doesn't want to watch it.